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Philosophy & Religion, Science & Nature

The Quest to Tell Science from Pseudoscience

Philosopher Karl Popper famously asked how to tell the two apart. His answer—falsifiability—hasn’t aged well, but the effort lives on.

Michael D. Gordin

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Philosophy & Religion

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Is Equality in Our Nature?

Pessimism about a selfish electorate is fundamentally misdirected.

Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis

Arts in Society, Philosophy & Religion

The Big Picture

By E. O. Wilson.

H. Allen Orr

Philosophy & Religion, Science & Nature

How the Mind Really Works

An exchange on Stephen Pinker's How the Mind Works.

Steven Pinker, Robert C. Berwick, Jeremy C. Ahouse

Law & Justice, Philosophy & Religion

The Right to Choose Death?

Do people have a right to choose death? More particularly, are euthanasia and physician-assisted

F. M. Kamm

Philosophy & Religion

Loyalty to Humanity

Is patriotism a morally irrelevant characteristic?

Anthony Appiah

Philosophy & Religion

Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism

The life of the cosmopolitan, who puts right before country, and universal reason before the symbols of national belonging, need not be boring, flat, or lacking in love.

Martha C. Nussbaum

Philosophy & Religion, Politics

The Possibility of Humanitarian Intervention

Noam Chomsky on the long history of American intervention.

Noam Chomsky

Arts in Society, Class & Inequality

Candidates for Survival

A Talk with Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom, Ellen Spirer

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